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Merri-bek traffic signals

155 signals with traffic counts in Merri-bek, from 2023 to 3 Oct 2026.

Signals
155
in Merri-bek
With recent counts
124
counted in the last 12 months
Busiest weekday volume
117,911
vehicles per weekday, Bell / Melville / Turner
Ready for turning counts
2
set up to show turning movements

Busiest signals

Where Merri-bek is busiest

The ten signals with the most traffic on an average weekday. A signal where faulty detectors left out most of the traffic is not ranked.

Busiest signals in Merri-bek
Signal	Weekday volume	AM peak	PM peak	Open in the map
Bell / Melville / TurnerSite 3052	117,911	7,267	7,578	Open
Sydney / WrrSite 2173	101,353	6,655	6,736	Open
Wrr / Pascoe ValeSite 2172	87,910	6,076	6,313	Open
Bell nr Gilmour (upfield Railway)Site 3083	80,879	4,393	4,637	Open
Bell / ElmSite 3055	74,331	4,574	4,773	Open
Bell / SussexSite 3053	72,934	4,289	4,339	Open
Bell / CumberlandSite 3050	72,907	4,650	4,771	Open
Bell nr AliceSite 3075	71,360	4,214	4,343	Open
Sydney / LorneSite 2191	66,865	4,397	4,704	Open
Bell / Nicholson / ElizabethSite 3056	64,522	4,425	4,597	Open

Weekday volume is vehicles per weekday; peaks are vehicles in the busiest hour of the morning and afternoon.

Worth a look

Signals worth a look

Signals with crashes, detector changes, a gap in counts or a large change in volume. A starting point for a closer look, not a verdict.

Sydney / Bell
Site 3054 · 58,576 vehicles per weekday
- Fatal/serious crashes: 7 (5 yrs)
- High crash rate (0.20 per million)
- OP sheet older than the last detector change
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Sydney Rd / Bakers
Site 2150 · 43,799 vehicles per weekday
- Fatal/serious crashes: 5 (5 yrs)
- High crash rate (0.16 per million)
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Sydney Rd / Boundary / Queens
Site 2153 · 42,454 vehicles per weekday
- Fatal/serious crashes: 5 (5 yrs)
- High crash rate (0.16 per million)
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Sydney / Gaffney / Murray
Site 4115 · 50,967 vehicles per weekday
- Fatal/serious crashes: 3 (5 yrs)
- High crash rate (0.15 per million)
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Brunswick / Lygon
Site 3113 · 41,935 vehicles per weekday
- Fatal/serious crashes: 3 (5 yrs)
- High crash rate (0.18 per million)
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Why these signals?

Fatal/serious crashes: 2 or more fatal or serious injury crashes at the signal, 1 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2025 (the last five full calendar years).
High crash rate: injury crashes per million entering vehicles in the top 10% of the council's 114 rated signals (0.14 or more), counting only signals with 5,000+ weekday vehicles and 3+ crashes. A rate needs a full year of counts (300+ days) behind it.
Detector changes: 2 or more start, stop or shift events in the last 12 months, or any in the last 90 days of the record.
OP sheet older: the date printed on the published sheet is earlier than the last detector change, so its layout may be out of date.
Silent: no counts for more than 60 days before the end of the record.
Mostly faulty detectors: more than 50% of the signal's traffic over its last 12 months was on detectors left out as faulty. Such a signal gets no volume-growth or crash-rate reason, because its volume covers the working lanes only.
Volume: 10% or more up or down year on year. Withheld where detectors changed and too little traffic stayed on the loops counted both years.
Ranked by crash reasons first, then fatal/serious crashes, then the number of other reasons, then weekday volume. Signals with no reason are not listed.

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Turning movements, peak hours, crashes and speed limits for each signal, in one map.

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About this data

What these figures are

Counts come from the vehicle detectors at traffic signals across Victoria. Weekday volume is the average number of vehicles through a signal on a weekday, and the AM and PM peaks are the busiest hour of the morning and afternoon, each over the signal’s most recent 12 months of counts. Detectors that are faulty are left out. Updated regularly.

Source: Department of Transport and Planning, via DataVic (Traffic Signal Volume Data and Victorian Traffic Signals), licensed CC BY 4.0. Independent; not affiliated with any road authority. Indicative analysis; verify against official sources before relying on it. See data coverage for how each figure is worked out.